The foundational period of postmodern thought, roughly 1960s-1980s, marked by the work of thinkers like Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, and Baudrillard. Classical Postmodernism established the core themes: the critique of grand narratives, the deconstruction of binary oppositions, the emphasis on difference, the recognition of the power-knowledge connection. It was a period of intense theoretical production, of radical questioning, of intellectual ferment. Classical Postmodernism remains the source text for all later postmodernisms—the origin from which everything else flows.
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